worker out of the atoms of the material in which he works; just as though, when you wanted a carpenter, you went into his workshop and tried to make him out of sawdust.

Forgiveness

Now if we grasp the great fundamental law that our mind, meaning by this our spiritual creative power, attracts conditions which correspond to its own conception of itself, and that its conception of itself must always be the exact reflection of its own dominant thought, then we can in some measure understand why Christ announced forgiveness of sin as the accompaniment of physical healing.

By sin, in the sense we have now seen, death and all lesser evils enter into the world. Sin is the cause and they are the effect. Then if the cause is removed, the effect must cease --- the root of the plant has been cut away, and so the fruit must wither. It is a simple working of cause and effect.

Healing

It is true that Jesus is not recorded to have announced forgiveness in every case in which he bestowed healing, and no doubt he had as good reasons for not making the announcement in some cases as for making it in others.

I cannot pretend to analyse those reasons, for that would imply a knowledge on my part equal to his own; but from what we do know of psychological laws and of the power of mind over body, I might hazard the conjecture that in those cases where he